Safety razor



April'21, 1931.

v. s. VENTIMIGLIA SAFETY RAZOR Filed Oct. 22, 192B ,BY HTTORNEY new Apr.21, 1931 I. r 1,801,889 8 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE VINCENT S.VENTIMIGLIA, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSO'b'B/I v V i Application filed October22, 1928. Serial No. 314,228.

This invention relates to a certain new and and substantially throughoutsaid portion 2 useful improvement in safety razors parof its length,shell A is provided longituditicularly adapted for removing hairs fromnally with a series of suitably spaced transwithin the nose or fromother parts of the verse kerfs 7 disposed inwardly through its l bodywhere a close shave is neither desired said apex 4 and said portion ofits length 55 nor desirable. The present device may hence therebyconverted to include a longitudinal be descriptively designated as anasal safety series of spacedV-shaped teeth 8. razor, my inventionhaving for its object the "Removably disposed longitudinally withinprovision of a nasal safety-razor which is of the shell A with itscutting edge 9 disposed 10 simple, inexpensive, and compact construc- 1nco-operativeprotected relation in the V- tion, which may be cheaply andeoonomicah shaped teeth 8, 1s a suitable blade B. 1y manufactured, whichcomprises few, read- F itting removably 1n, and providin a ilyoperatively assembled parts, which is con: closure for, the open rearend of shell A, is a veniently usable, and which is efiicient m the capprov ded transversely or diametrical- 1 performance of its intendedfunctions. 1y with a pm 10, whose ends 11-11 are pre- 65 And with theabove and other objects in sented outwardly of the cap and adapted forview, my invention resides in the novel fea cooperation with thebayonet-slots 6 in detures of form, construction, arrangement, andtachably retainlng the cap C in shell-closure combination of partshereinafter described positlon'.

and pointed out in the claims. Attached to the cap G by means of said 70In the accompanying drawing, pin 10, 1s a PIOJGCtlIlg coiled spring 12adapt- Figure 1 is an elevational view of a nasal ed, when the cap 0 isin shell-closure position, safety-razor embodying my invention; -toimpinge against an end of blade B to Figures 2 and 3 are elevatlonalviews of the yieldingly retain the same in cutting corazor, as seen fromdifferent angles and with operative relation with the teeth 8. It will75 the blade-covering cap removed; be evident that, on removal of cap C,a blade Figure 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of B may be removedand conveniently renewed. the razor; and Adapted to fit removably onsaid portion 2 Figures 5 and 6 are transverse sectional of shell A andover the teeth 8 when the views of the razor, taken approximately 011razor is not in use, or for convenience in so the lines 5-5 and 66,Figure 1,respectively. carrying the same in a pocket, case, or the rReferring now more in detail and by ref-' like, is a tubular-cap 13.

erence characters to the drawing, which il- It is to be understood thatchanges in the lustrates a preferred embodiment of my inform,construction, arrangement, and comvention, the body of the razor ispreferably bination of the several parts of my new razor 85 in the formof a suitably elongated hollow or may be made and substituted for thoseherein tubular shell A, which for a part of its length shown anddescribed without departing from is of cylindrical contour, as at 1, andwhich the nature and principle of my invention.

. for the remainder 2 of its length is oppositely Having thus describedmy invention, whati flattened, as at 3, 3, through approximately I claimand desire to secure by Letters Patentao half of its circumferentialarea. Shell ,A is is:

thusthrough part of its length of V-shape in 1. A nasal safety razorincluding, in comsection, as it may be described, the apex 4 bination, atubular open-end shell, a blade thereof beingpresented outwardly andexremovably fitting longitudinally within the tending longitudinally ofthe shell, all as shell, the shell having a longitudinal series 95.shown, the shell Abeing closed and preferof spaced V-shaped teeth forco-operative ably neatly rounded at itsforward end,as at5. relation withthe cutting edge of the blade, At and opening upon the rear open end ofthe and means for yieldingly retaining the blade shell A, for purposespresently appearing, are removably'within the shell, saidmeans com- 50diametrically opposite bayonet-slots 6, 6. At prising a closure-cap forthe open end of 10C the shell, and a coiled spring fixed to the cap forimpinging engagement with an end of the blade. 2. A nasal safety razorincluding, in combination, a tubularopen-end shell, a blade removablyfitting longitudinally Within the shell, the shell having a longitudinalseries of s aced V-shaped teeth for co-operative relation with thecutting edge of the blade, and means for yieldingly retaining the bladeremovably within the shell, said means comprising a closure-cap for theopen end of the shell, and a coiled spring fixed to the ca for impingingengagement with an end the blade, the forward closed end-of the shellbeing of rounded configuration.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

VINCENT S. VENTIMIGLIA.

